All articles by Greenpeace European Unit
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Brussels promises permanent monument for climate victims
While heatwaves in Europe lead to thousands of excess deaths, and five years after hundreds lost their lives in devastating floods in Belgium and Germany, the Brussels regional government has promised to erect a monument to all victims of climate change. The ceremony was held on the EU Day for the Victims of the Global…
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EU livestock strategy ignores dangers from nitrates and methane
The European Commission's new livestock strategy avoids the hard questions and fails to confront the destructive intensification in the EU livestock sector.
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In EU first, Denmark plans to cut nitrate limit in drinking water to reduce cancer risk
The new Danish government plans to lower the level of nitrate in drinking water, which mainly comes from agricultural sources and is linked to colorectal and bowel cancer risk
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Letter: the EU Fertiliser Action Plan must herald the end of fossil input dependency
More than 70 groups have urged the European Commission to prioritise agroecology, organic farming and other low-input food production practices
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Forest-protection law gets EU Commission green light, but leather loophole is unacceptable – Greenpeace
After long delay, governments and companies must prepare for full application of the EU anti-deforestation law by the end of 2026
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Media briefing: nitrates in drinking water
This brief gathers the latest science on the health impacts of nitrates, alongside existing data on nitrate pollution and the livestock sector across Europe.
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Letter: Lack of transparency and civil society inclusion in Commission implementation dialogues
Amid the EU's ongoing drive to reopen and weaken environmental rules, green NGOs have serious concerns about the way the European Commission conducts important stakeholder consultations.
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EU delays plans to sign unpopular trade deal with Mercosur
Ursula von der Leyen will not travel to Brazil to sign the EU-Mercosur trade agreement this weekend, according to reports
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EU farming is changing for the worst – and now YOUR future is at stake.
The climate crisis is accelerating, and farms across Europe are vanishing. Industrial agriculture drives both – yet the EU keeps pouring public money into it through its main farming policy,…
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Right-wing MEPs have made a mess of the EU deforestation law
Creating uncertainty and calling it “simplification”